Week 9 - Posting 9

Throughout the spring semester, our mini ethnography and preparing for writing it has been the bulk of what we've done in English 104 thus far. Although I was super stressed out in the beginning and never thought I could accomplish this feat, it's gotten much easier. One of the hardest things I've done so far is actually pick a topic. When a student is assigned such a long paper, it's hard to decide what to write about for that long. Also, I thought that the annotated bibliography was hard. It is nice having all of the sources done before writing the paper, however it's hard to find all of the information without knowing if you are going to use it in your paper or not. One of the easiest things has been interviewing my sisters. It was really fun getting to know their responses and how they feel about our sorority and sisterhood. Another thing I thought was easy were all of the blog postings. Because of the blogs, it has helped me keep my thoughts on top of things and focus on this paper. It's helped me keep track of everything and my ideas and since we've done a lot of postings, I can go back and look at them and see what I've written down. If I could go back, I don't know if I would do much differently. I think the process I've done thus far has been pretty beneficial. I think that the blogs will help preparing for my mini ethnography because I can use what's already been written in these blogs and it will make the whole paper writing process a much easier and lighter task.